Sacramento City Councilman Steve Hansen will hold a community meeting Wednesday evening on a controversial proposal to redevelop an R Street warehouse.

Neighboring businesses and residents to the former Fred Rader Mill Supply building at 26th and R streets are fighting to keep alcohol sales out of the plans for the site. Investors propose retail and office tenants, including possible use by a brewery and cider company.

The Midtown Neighborhood Association and the Newton Booth Neighborhood Association — as well as individuals — oppose alcohol tastings and sales at the building.

Karen Jacques, who is a small business owner, a central city activist and a landlord of several nearby buildings, appealed the Sacramento Planning and Design Commission’s May 9 approval of the project. That sends the project up to the city of Sacramento council for review.

Hansen will hold a community meeting to discuss the project from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the California Poetry Center, 1719 25th St., in the northeast corner of the complex, reached through the gate off 25th.

At their May 9 meeting, commissioners had said they were encouraged by the planned redevelopment of a blighted property and by the continued renaissance of R Street into a mixed-use neighborhood.

Some business and residential neighbors, though, say they are appalled by the approval. They fear that alcohol sales would scare of tenants in their buildings and result in loud, drunken loitering nearby. They contend that the city is promoting alcohol businesses at the expense of other businesses. They’re fine with a project that would house shops, a cafe and offices — but not a brewery or winery.